Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,250, Marvel Ellis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Ellis, Marvel Cynthia
N. 16,250
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Albany 11 588 3/4 New-York.
Cynthia Ellis widow of Marvel Ellis
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the year 1809 — of Oneida Co. in the State of New-York who was a Hiker in the Compys commanded by Captain Cushing's of the Regt. commanded by Col: Revere — in the Massachusetts line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York at the rate of 104 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of November 1840 and sent to M m . M. Ellis Utica, N. York.
Arrears to the 4th of March 41 $ 520: — Semi-annual allowance ending
$ 520: —
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by Wm. C. Lantinger Clerk Book A Vol. 2 — Page 76

State of New York Oneida County ss.
On this 14 th day of August 1840 personally appeared in open Court before Philo Gridley Esq r , Vice Chancellor of the fifth Circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery now sitting at Utica for the said State, Cynthia Ellis a resident of Utica County of Oneida and State aforesaid aged Seventy one years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress relative to granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows
That she is seventy one years of age. That she was married to her late husband Marvel Ellis (who before then had resided in Massachusetts) on the twenty eighth day of February 1793. at Pittstown in the now County of Rensselaer and State of New-York. That she cohabited with her said husband from the day of their Marriage aforesaid until his death which took place at Utica in the County of Oneida and State of New York on the 26 th day of November 1809. That the said Marvel Ellis was a revolutionary soldier and is the identical person referred to in the annexed Certificate of John P Bigelow Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, but as to the particulars of his services as such soldier and the duration thereof the Applicant cannot state with certainty as she has no personal knowledge thereof
That the said Cynthia Ellis has remained a widow since the death of her said husband Marvel Ellis and is now his widow - That she has no documentary evidence of her Marriage or any of the facts herein stated, having now no family Bible containing the family records, excepting one made in 1824. since the death of the said Marvel Ellis
Cynthia Ellis

And the said Court do hereby declare its Opinion after investigating the matter that the said Cynthia Ellis is the widow and Relict of Marvel Ellis a Revolutionary Soldier mentioned in the annexed certificate of John P. Bigelow Esq r . That she was married to the said Marvel Ellis as is stated in her said declaration - That she has continued his widow ever since the death of the said Marvel Ellis, and is now a widow - And that the facts set forth in her said declaration are true and that the said Benjamin Brayton and Lyman Ellis are Credible persons and that their Statements are entitled to credit.
Philo Gridley Vice Chancellor of the 5 th Circuit of the State of New York
I James Watson Williams, Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the fifth circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Cynthia Ellis for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this 14 th day of August A.D. 1840.
J. Watson Williams Clerk

Marvel Ellis born March 29 th 1766
Cynthia Whipple born Sep r 17 th 1768
Were Married Feb y 28 th 1793
(#) Elizabeth Harriet Ellis born
Daughter of Marvel & Cynthia
born January 22 d 1794
Died August 2 nd  1797 1797
Eliza th Harriet Ellis - born August 4 th 1797
Mahlon Marvel Ellis born Oct r 31 st 1801 —
Marvel Ellis Died Nov r 26 th 1809 —
1817 Elizabeth Harriet Ellis died Dec r 1 st 1819 in 21 st year of her age

State of New York Oneida County ss,
Cynthia Ellis being duly sworn sayeth, that the annexed paper contains the only written memorandum of the facts therein stated which this Deponent now has or on diligent search can find -
That the three first lines of said memorandum were written soon after her marriage with the said Marvel Ellis, and the residue were written from time to time since that period and about the times they respectively were dated - That all the facts therein stated are true - That the family record mentioned in the original application as having been made in 1824 was taken from the annexed paper and is substantially a copy of the same.
Cynthia Ellis
I James Watson Williams, Clerk in ordinary for the Fifth Circuit of the State of New York (the said Court being a Court of Record) do hereby certify that on the ninth day of October 1820 Cynthia Ellis above named and who subscribed the foregoing affidavit, was by me duly sworn to the truth of the contents thereof, and that she is a credible person and of sound mind & memory
James Watson Williams Clerk in ordinary J. M. Gilchrist, Notary

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16250
Cynthia Ellis Wid of Marcel Ellis after Rev War
Act: July 7th '88
Index:—Vol. A , Page 214
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jan 21 97 Hester to H. Hayden Cag - See Wid. 7093

7308 Ms. Le. to Mr. M. Ellis Sept. 1, 1840 To same Sept. 28, 1840. Act 7. July 38.
J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Attica Nov 2 nd 1840
Sir
In compliance with the requisition of yours of the 28 th Sept. (inclosing the deposition of Lyman Ellis in the case of Cynthia Ellis, and duly attested thereto) I have procured the certificate of the County Clerk &c, inclosed is the Afft. of Lyman Ellis & duly attested thereto. Also a memorandum made by Cynthia Ellis and her Afft. attached
Most respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
M c M c Ellis
J. L. Edwards
Count of Seneca
Washington

Aug Friday 24. 1840
Spice with baker of Cynthia Ellis no 21 St.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
Atkins Augst 20th 1840
Enclosed is a certificate from the Clerk of Jefferson County which should have been attached to the Afft. of Lyman Ellis in the matter of Cynthia Ellis's Application for a Pension which was returned to you on the 20th inst.
Respectfully Yours & etc. W. M. Ellis

William Woodell Justice of the peace
State of New York Jefferson County Clerks Office
I Pelag Purnahand Clerk of said County do certify that William Woodell Esquire is a Justice of the peace in and for said County that his term of Office commenced on the first day of January 1839 and will expire on the 31 st day of December 1842 and that his signature above written is genuine witness my hand Seal of Office this 17 th day of August 1840 P. Purnahand Clerk
John Lloyd
William Woodell N.Y. N.Y. N.Y.

July 7. 1838 I.C.A. Aug 19 N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Sir
enclosed are the papers of Cynthia Ellis of Utica, Oneida County N. York for a Pension
Yours & M m M m Ellis

Pittstown August 4 th 1890
I do hereby certify that there is no record of marriages whatever in this office. Neither is there of births or deaths except of children born of parents who are slaves
Nyack Sept 1890 June
Your Clerk of the Town of Pittstown County of Rensselaer
N.Y.

State of New York Onida County ss
Benjamin Brayton of Trenton County of Onida and State of New York, being duly sworn Maketh Oath and saith that he is well ac- quainted with Cynthia Ellis widow and relict of Marvel Ellis who as he is credibly informed was a Revolutionary Soldier, that the said Cynthia was married to the said Marvel Ellis in 1793 that this Deponent was present at the wedding and saw them married that they lived together as man & wife until the death of the said Marvel Ellis which took place about the year 1809- at Utica - That the marriage of the said Cynthia with the said Marvel Ellis took place on or about the 28 th of Feby. 1793 at Pittstown in the now County of Rensselaer and State of New York. That since the death of the said Marvel Ellis the said Cynthia has remained a widow
Benj. Brayton
I certify that on the 13 th August 1820 the said Ben m Brayton was duly affirmed before me & then read this affidavit.
Phil. G. W. L. C. & G. J. C. C. 5 th Circuit N. York

State of New York Jefferson County ss.
On the 30 th day of July 1840 before me William Wadell one of the justices of the peace in and for said County of Jefferson. personally appeared Lyman Ellis who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Marvel Ellis who at the commencement of the revolutionary War resided in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts and that he was knowing to his being in the service in the revolutionary War in that state as a fifer in Capt. Cushings Company, the length of time he was in the service not recollected. this deponent further saith that he was knowing to the Marriage of the said Marvel Ellis to Miss Cynthia Whipple, now Mrs. Cynthia Ellis which took place in Pittsfield Berkshire County N. Y. in February 1793. and that they lived together as Man & Wife untill his Death in November 1809. and that he was the identical Marvel Ellis who was in the revolutionary war in Capt. Cushings Com- pany - as above stated. and further this deponent saith that.
Subscribed and sworn before
Me this 30 th day of July 1840
Lyman Ellis.
Wm Wadell Justice of the Peace

Mr. Ellis is welcome to the certificate, as his money is accordingly returned.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 21 st 1840.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Marvel Ellis is borne on an Account in the Army Books remaining in this office, as a Sijer in Captain Cushing's Company, Colonel Revere's Regiment, and found there credited by his Services from May 8 th 1777 to December 31 st 1779, being 31. Months 23 days at 52/ per Month.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
6/52 $8.66 2 / 3
2 years 7

Cynthia Ellis
no 7308
Cynthia Ellis
NY.
act p. July 38
adm'd 2 yrs Fifer of Artillery
104=
No deduction
M. M. Ellis
Utica
NY.

107 Cynthia Ellis Sept 10 N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Utica Sept. 14 th 1840
Sir
In re d your letter of the 1 st Inst. in reference to the case of Cynthia Ellis (Applicant for a Pension) in which you say the disproofment of the alleged date of the marriage to the limitation of the Act will render it necessary either to establish it by some record or by credible witnesses who can show that they are enabled to fix the date by dates, and also to identify her late husband with the individual in Col. Allen's Regt.
Enclosed I send you the left. of Lyman Ellis who was a brother of Nathaniel & who was in the service part of the same time, & knowing to the circumstances. He has mentioned the circumstance of Mrs. Ellis having a daughter born previous to the execution of the deed to prove beyond a doubt that she must have been married previous to the limitation of the Act.
I enclosed to you the 20 th of Augt. the certificate of the Clerk of Jefferson County that Mr. Woodell was a justice of the Peace. This Afft. was taken before the same person I presume this in connection with the papers you have will be satisfactory.
Most respectfully Your Ob t Servt. M c M c Ellis
To P l L. Edwards Esq. Com ee of Pensions
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Daniel W. Conn

beginning in the South West Bounds of a Tract of seven thousand Acres of Land granted to John Kelly and John DeLancey by Letters patent bearing date the eighteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at the distance of Two hundred and fifty five Chains from the most westerly corner thereof and running from the said place of beginning the following Courses as the Needle pointed in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, to wit South twenty six degrees and thirty Minutes East Eighty five Chains then South sixty three Degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains then North twenty six Degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains and then North sixty three Degrees and thirty Minutes East eighty five Chains to the place of beginning containing seven hundred and twenty two Acres And the fifth Tract beginning in the South West bounds of a Tract of seven thousand Acres of Land granted to John DeLancey and John Kelly by Letters patent bearing date the eighteenth day of July in the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at the distance of three hundred and forty Chains from the most westerly corner thereof and running from the said place of beginning as the needle pointed in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four the following courses to wit South twenty six degrees and thirty minutes East one hundred and fifty three Chains to the South west corner of the said Tract of Land granted to John DeLancey and John Kelly then west ninety five Chains then North twenty six degrees and thirty Minutes West one hundred and twelve Chains and then North sixty three Degrees and thirty Minutes East eighty five Chains to the place of beginning containing One thousand one hundred and twelve Acres Together with all and singular the Hereditaments and Appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, And the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and Profits thereof And also all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever of the said Daniel M c Cormick either in Law or Equity, of in and to the above granted premises with the said Hereditaments and Appurtenances To have and to hold the said several Tracts of Land and premises with the Appurtenances and every part and parcel thereof to the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns, to the only sole and only proper Use and behoof of the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns for ever. And the said Daniel M c Cormick for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth covenant grant and agree to and with the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns in manner and from following that is to say that he the said Daniel M c Cormick now is the true and lawful Owner and Proprietor of all the hereby granted and released Tracts or Parcels of Land Hereditaments and premises hereby granted released and conveyed with the Appurtenances thereof And hath in himself good right and full Power to grant release and convey the same in manner aforesaid And also that it shall and may be lawful for the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns at all Times hereafter to have hold occupy and possess and enjoy all the before granted released and conveyed Tracts of Land Hereditaments and premises without any lawful Let, Suit Claim or demand of him the said Daniel M c Cormick or of any other person having or lawfully claiming any Estate Right Title or Interest therein And also that all the hereby granted released and conveyed Tracts of Land Hereditaments and premises now are free and clear from all incumbrances whatsoever And also that he the said Daniel M c Cormick his Heirs and all other persons lawfully claiming any Interest therein shall and will at the request and costs of the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs or Assigns make do and execute or cause and procure to be made done and executed all such further and other lawful Conveyances and Assurances in Law as shall be needful or necessary for the further conveying or assuring the hereby granted and released and conveyed Tracts of Land Hereditaments and premises to the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns for ever And lastly that the said Daniel M c Cormick and his Heirs all the herein before granted released and conveyed Tracts of Land Hereditaments and premises unto the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis their Heirs and Assigns shall and will warrant and by these presents defend And the said Daniel M c Cormick for himself and his Heirs doth hereby warrant the same accordingly In witness whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the day and year in this Indenture first within written -

Clinton ss: Recorded in Lib A of Deeds Pages 460 & c ter this 11 th day of Sept 1796 — M c Dowell Clerk 30

New York Jefferson County ss
On the Eleventh day of September 1840 before me personally came Lyman Ellis who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he was well acquainted with Marvel Ellis who was born at Mendon in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, that he enlisted in the service of the revolutionary War in the State of Massachusetts as a fifer in Captain Cushing's Company and Col. Revere's Regiment and served from 8 th of May 1777 to 31 Dec r 1779. and that about the year 1786 he removed from Mendon to Pittstown, Rensselaer County New York where this deponent then resided, and entered into partnership with this deponent in the Mercantile business and keeping a public house. and further this deponent saith that the said Marvel Ellis on the 28 th day of February 1793 was married to Miss Cynthia Whipple now Cynthia Ellis at Pittstown aforesaid and that they lived together as Husband & Wife until the death of the said Marvel which was in November 1809. and that the said Cynthia Ellis who now resides at Utica N. York is the Widow of the said Marvel Ellis and that he was the Identical Marvel Ellis who served in the revolutionary War as above stated, and that this deponent saith he never knew or heard of any other person by the name of Marvel Ellis. — and this deponent further saith that on the fourth day of February 1794 Daniel M c Comick executed to Lyman Ellis and the said Marvel Ellis in Company a Deed of a certain tract or tracts of Land situate in the County of Washington on the west side of Lake Champlain, which deed is herewith annexed and that the said Marvel & Cynthia had a daughter born a short time previous to the execution of the said deed and named Elizabeth Harriet. and this deponent further saith that he and the said Marvel removed from Pittstown to Troy Rensselaer County N.Y. in the year 1795 or 1796. and further this deponent saith not.
Lyman Ellis
Subscribed and sworn to before me This 11 th day of September 1840 Wm Woodell Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Lyman Ellis the above witness and know him to be a man of truth & veracity and of good moral character dated at Ellisburgh October 15 th 1840 William Woodell Justice of the Peace

State of New York Jefferson County Clerk's Office I Philip Burchard Clerk of said County do certify that William Ward Esq. before whom the within affidavit, depositions & habeas corpus were at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and merely believe his signature to the same to be genuine Witness my hand and the seal of said County October 17. 1840 P. Burchard Clerk
I certify that I have been acquainted with the deponent within named for thirty years and know him to bear the reputation of a man of strict integrity, truth and veracity P. Burchard

Sealed and delivered } in the presence of us } the word North on the fifth line of the second page wrote on an erasure
Iss: Pitcairn
H. Rogers

New York ss: Be it Remembered that on this fifth Day of February in the Year one thousand Seven hundred and ninety four Before me James McHughes Master in Chancery personally came Daniel McComick Grantor in the within Indenture named who acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the same as his voluntary Act and Deed for the Uses therein mentioned: And I having perused the same and finding no material Erasure or Interlineation therein except those noted, Do allow the same to be Recorded
James McHughes
Deed from Daniel McComick to Lyman H. Ellis Office file 24/1
No 32
28/93

Ded from Daniel M c Comack to Simon J. M c Ellis Office for 24/9
No 3
28/9/93

This Indenture made the Fourth day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four Between Daniel M c Cormick of the City of New York Esquire of the first part and Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis both of Pitts Town in the County of Rensselaer of the second part Whereas the People of the State of New York have by their Letters Patent under the great Seal of the said State bearing date the Eleventh day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven given granted and confirmed unto the said Daniel M c Cormick All those five certain Tracts of Land herein after mentioned reference to the said Patents now of Record in the Secretary's Office of the said State of New York being had may more fully appear Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said Daniel M c Cormick for and in consideration of the Sum of One thousand six hundred Pounds lawful Money of the State of New York to him in hand paid by the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis, at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Hath granted bargained sold remised released and confirmed and by these presents Doth grant bargain sell remise release and confirm unto the said Lyman Ellis and Marvel Ellis (in their actual possession now being by virtue of a bargain and sale to them thereof made for one year by Indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date of these presents and by force of the Statute made for transferring of uses into possession) and to their Heirs and Assigns for Ever All those certain Tracts of Land situate lying and being in the County of Washington on the West side of Lake Champlain; The first Tract of Land beginning at the most westerly corner of a Tract of seven Thousand Acres of Land granted to John DeLancey and John Kelly by Letters Patent bearing date the eighteenth day of July in the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six and running from the said place of beginning the following Courses as the Needle pointed in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, to wit, South twenty six Degrees and thirty Minutes East Eighty five Chains then South sixty three degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains then North Twenty six Degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains to the place of beginning containing seven hundred and twenty two Acres. The second Tract of Land beginning in the South West bounds of a Tract of seven Thousand Acres of Land granted to John DeLancey and John Kelly by Letters Patent bearing date the eighteenth day of July in the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at the distance of Eighty five Chains from the most westerly corner thereof and running from the said place of beginning the following Courses as the Needle pointed in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, to wit, South Twenty six Degrees and thirty Minutes East eighty five Chains then South sixty three degrees and thirty Minutes West eighty five Chains then North twenty six degrees and thirty Minutes west eighty five Chains and then North sixty three degrees and thirty Minutes East Eighty five Chains to the place of beginning containing seven hundred and twenty two Acres; The third Tract of Land beginning in the South west bounds of a Tract of seven thousand Acres of Land granted to John DeLancey and John Kelly by Letters Patent bearing date the eighteenth day of July in the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at the distance of one hundred and seventy Chains the most westerly corner thereof and running from the said place of beginning the following Courses as the Needle pointed in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, to wit, South Twenty six degrees and thirty Minutes East eighty five Chains then South sixty three Degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains, then North Twenty six degrees and thirty Minutes West Eighty five Chains and then North sixty three Degrees and thirty Minutes East Eighty five Chains to the place of beginning containing seven hundred and Twenty Two Acres. The fourth Tract of Land